IPL 7 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kings XI Punjab Report

31st match of IPL season 7 has been played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Punjab with good batting and superb bowling won the match by 32 run. DA Miler played superb fast inning of 66 runs of 29 balls. But Sandeep Sharma declared man of the match for his 3 wkts in his 4 overs.

Earlier, Bangalore won the toss and decided to field first. Punjab as usual made firing start with V Sehwag and Mandeep Singh. V Swhwag again got good quick start but could not convert his inning in long inning. He made 30 runs of 24 balls. Mandeep Singh also lost his wicket scoring 21 runs. Now GJ Maxwell and DA Miler took the charge and started firing innings for Punjab. GJ Maxwell as his reputation started confidently but unfortunately got out on 25 runs of just 11 balls. Today DA Miler played superb inning of 66 runs of just 29 balls and put Punjab on very huge totals of 198 runs at the end of 20 overs.

Following hige totals of 199 runs, Bangalore top order failed to gave good start and lost wickets in regular interwals. At one stage Bangalore were 50 for 5 wickets. AB de Villiers played some good and sensible cricket and contributed quick 53 runs of 26 balls. Other lower order batsmen could not contributed enough and Bangalore lost the match by 32 runs.

Thus, Punjab with good 2 points remained on top of points tally of IPL 7 and Bangalore got 0 points. DA Miler played good inning of 66 runs but Sandeep sharma got man of the match for his 3 wickets in his 4 overs spending 25 runs.